Coming up in this episode of the MedicCast TV Weekly Commentary is a look at what one Florida County is doing to improve their management workflow for scheduling, routine tasks and paperwork. Host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic is joined by Battalion Chief Cory Richter from Indian River County, Florida. Together they talk about that fire and EMS service and how they are using the unique online software tools to manage their staff at Indian River County.More →

In this episode from EMS World Expo 2014, MedicCast host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic sits down and chats with EMS administrator Robbie Tester from Life Force Air, an aeromedical transport service that utilizes many of the unique packages available to Aladtec.com users as part of their management and scheduling software for EMS agencies and organizations.More →

In this special segment from the EMS in the New Decade podcast at EMS World Expo 2014, host Scott Kier chats with Andrew Coccaro, EMS Director for Wilcox County, Georgia. He has been a user of the Aladtec.com scheduling and management software for several years saving him and his service both time and money as they schedule and manage their EMS staff of EMTs and paramedics.More →

The work day is never over for a dispatch center like North Memorial Ambulance Services (NMAS). The shifts are not set in stone, nor do staff members have the same schedule week to week. These factors make it very difficult [...]More →

Many organizations still schedule their employees, and conduct their workforce management tasks, on paper and/or on a desktop computer at the office. These methods typically present many challenges. “Previously, I did my scheduling in our Outlook program which was [...]More →

Aladtec, Inc., the company behind the popular online employee scheduling and workforce management systems, EMS Manager, FIRE Manager, and Zanager, is rebranding and consolidating these products to simply…Aladtec. In addition to a different product logo, users will also notice [...]More →

Gone are the days when you had no choice but to use paper and pencil, spreadsheets, calendars or a whiteboard to display your organization’s work schedule. And, gone are the many challenges involved in keeping it up-to-date and error free. [...]More →

When using the old paper and pencil method, regardless of how small an EMS agency is, they still typically struggle to keep their shift assignments accurate and the schedule up-to-date. “We created a handwritten schedule – the bad part was [...]More →

In this week's episode of the MedicCast TV Weekly Commentary, I bring you a special interview segment with Chief Eric Strout from Maine. Eric is the Chief of EMS and director of G & H Ambulance in Lavant, Maine as well as the fire chief of the Levant Fire Department. I brought Eric on the show to chat with us about what his service is up to and how they are using some unique software solutions from Aladtec to solve their scheduling and crew management challenges.More →

Often people are reluctant to change an administrative process because they aren’t comfortable with the technology involved, or they think their system “is good enough” the way it is. But when they see other organizations making a successful change to [...]More →

Kids and concussions in the ER, another hospital cutting back EMS funding, 5 steps to better stroke care and we'll bring you another segment from EMS World Expo last month in Las Vegas with a special interview with the Fit Responder, Bryan Fass. If that's what you're looking for, you found it, right here on this week's episode of the MedicCast. -- Play this episode here ...More →

Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, host here at MedicCast TV got the chance to interview Doug Goodwin, Assistant Director for EMS in Gaffney, South Carolina. Doug's system is using the EMS Manager system to schedule their crews and they have seen huge savings in time, money, and man-hours since implementing the system. Check out Doug's enthusiasm for the product and take a look for yourself at EMSManager.net for a free trial demo of the software.More →

When organizations and companies schedule staff on a spreadsheet, whiteboard or a calendar with paper and pencil, it’s extremely difficult to accurately keep track of an employee’s total hours worked for any given time. Then consider all their shift trades, [...]More →

George and Paula Farah both work for Dare County, NC EMS on the Outer Banks and they know how time and distance affect a large, geographically diverse service area. In their system, crews used to have to wait until the beginning of each shift to find out what station they were staffing because of the paper staffing system they were using. EMS Manager from Aladtec changed all of that.More →

In a similar line of thought as that previous article on the Boston bombing after action review, I found this article out of Wausau, Wisconsin that looked at a community taking a good, hard look at how they respond to [...]More →